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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: perfmon trouble
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 10:18:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180611171811.GB28292@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFykGPDTVN=UvrcDvwV3S_sixXREu8D7eK+x695OmA2PNw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:04:00AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 9:49 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > The problem is that even oprofile on ia64 depends on perfmon.
> 
> Hmm? You can definitely enable ia64 support for oprofile even without perfmon.

Oh, I think my memory is playing tricks on me.  This is my confusion, I think:

oprofile-$(CONFIG_PERFMON) += perfmon.o

so perfmon events are exposed through oprofile, but you can disable
perfmon without disabling oprofile.

> Because I'd be inclined to just remove CONFIG_PERFMON support, and see
> if anybody even notices..
> 
> I'm not expecting a lot of people to do a lot of oprofile on ia64
> anyway. It's a bit late to start optimizing things now.
> 
> Do people use perfmon still? Maybe. Maybe not. Perhaps we could just
> mark it as broken in the Kconfig file for now, and see if somebody
> says something?

That gets my vote.

Tony?  Fenghua?

diff --git a/arch/ia64/Kconfig b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
index 792437d526c6..ff861420b8f5 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
@@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ config IA64_MCA_RECOVERY
 
 config PERFMON
        bool "Performance monitor support"
+       depends on BROKEN
        help
          Selects whether support for the IA-64 performance monitor hardware
          is included in the kernel.  This makes some kernel data-structures a

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-11 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-08 18:48 [RFC][PATCHES] getting rid of int *open in ->atomic_open() and friends Al Viro
2018-06-08 18:50 ` [PATCH 01/13] drm_mode_create_lease_ioctl(): switch to filp_clone_open() Al Viro
2018-06-08 18:50   ` [PATCH 02/13] rename filp_clone_open() to file_clone_open() Al Viro
2018-06-08 18:50   ` [PATCH 03/13] introduce FMODE_OPENED Al Viro
2018-06-08 18:50   ` [PATCH 04/13] get rid of 'opened' argument of finish_open() Al Viro
2018-06-08 18:50   ` [PATCH 05/13] pull fput() on late failures into path_openat() Al Viro
2018-06-08 18:50   ` [PATCH 06/13] switch all remaining checks for FILE_OPENED to FMODE_OPENED Al Viro
2018-06-08 18:50   ` [PATCH 07/13] now we can fold open_check_o_direct() into do_dentry_open() Al Viro
2018-06-08 18:50   ` [PATCH 08/13] __gfs2_lookup(), nfs_finish_open() and fuse_create_open() don't need 'opened' Al Viro
2018-06-08 18:50   ` [PATCH 09/13] introduce FMODE_CREATED and switch to it Al Viro
2018-06-08 18:50   ` [PATCH 10/13] IMA: don't propagate opened through the entire thing Al Viro
2018-06-08 18:50   ` [PATCH 11/13] gfs2_create_inode() doesn't need 'opened' anymore Al Viro
2018-06-08 18:50   ` [PATCH 12/13] get rid of 'opened' argument of ->atomic_open() Al Viro
2018-06-08 18:50   ` [PATCH 13/13] get rid of 'opened' in path_openat() and the helpers downstream Al Viro
2018-06-08 18:57 ` [RFC][PATCHES] getting rid of int *open in ->atomic_open() and friends Linus Torvalds
2018-06-09  5:10   ` Al Viro
2018-06-09 15:51     ` Al Viro
2018-06-11  2:10       ` perfmon trouble Al Viro
2018-06-11 16:23         ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-11 16:48           ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-06-11 17:04             ` Linus Torvalds
2018-06-11 17:18               ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2018-06-11 18:51                 ` Stephane Eranian
2018-06-11 18:59                   ` Linus Torvalds
2018-06-11 20:06                   ` Al Viro
2018-06-17 18:22     ` [RFC][PATCHES] getting rid of int *open in ->atomic_open() and friends Al Viro

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